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1135-ENC1101-Writing and rhetoric 1 - section RX2A - summer 2013

Writing project 2: Homosexuality

David Ayala Orjuela

Florida International University

Business Administration

Business Management

Bogota D.C, Colombia

Homosexuality is defined as the romantic, sexual attraction and or sexual activity involving members of the same sex. It is considered one of the three categories of sexual orientation, next to bisexuality and heterosexuality. View from an orientation point of view, homosexuality refes to “an enduring disposition to experience sexual, affectionate, or romantic attractictions” primarily or exclusively to people of the same sex. Scientifically and medically speking, homosexuality is not viewed as a choice more than complex mixture of biological and enviromental factors, that start from very early in the development of the human such as the uterine enviroment. In the contrary to this many people believe homosexual activity is “unnatural” or many people have called it “dysfunctional”. Even though many research has shown over the years that homosexuality is a normal and natural varitation in human sexuality and is not a product of any psycological dissorder. Whereas discrimination against homosexual and bisexual people have shown to causse psycological harm, especially in children who are either homosexual or bisexual.

The Word “homosexual”, comes from Greek and a Latin hybrid. The Greek part, homos, means “same”, unrealation to the Latin Word homo, which means “man” many believe, assuming that would be the same as in Latin words such as in Homo sapiens. The attitudes towrads the same sex relationship have existed throught the history of human kind and had varied over the time and place for example, at some part of history all males were expected to be invl¡olved in sema-sex relationship, after the time went by, this chage to a simply integration, through aceeptance. As the time went by, these changed and started to be seen as

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